Good Morning Quote

The past is the present, isn't it? It's the future too.

~Long Day's Journey Into Night

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DANCER: [Laughing hysterically] What a song! There is no tune to it and I can understand no words. I wonder what it means.
GENTLEMAN: Who knows? It is doubtless some folk song of his people which he is singing.
DANCER: But I wish to find out. Sailor! Will you tell me what it means--that song you are singing?
[The Negro stares at her uneasily for a moment.]
SAILOR: [Drawlingly] It is a song of my people.
DANCER: Yes. But what do the words mean?
SAILOR: [Pointing to the shark fins] I am singing to them. It is a charm. I have been told it is very strong. If I sing long enough they will not eat us.
~Thirst (One act play orig. published 1914)

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  CHRIS—(Looking out into the night—lost in his somber preoccupation—shakes his head and mutters.) Fog, fog, fog, all bloody time. You can’t see vhere you vas going, no. Only dat ole davil, sea—she knows! (The two stare at him. From the harbor comes the muffled, mournful wail of steamers’ whistles.)
(The Curtain Falls)
~Anna Christie Act IV
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~~EUGENE GLADSTONE O'NEILL
b. Oct. 16, 1888, New York, N.Y., U.S. d. Nov. 27, 1953, Boston, Mass.
American dramatist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936.

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Electronic Eugene O'Neill Archive
http://www.eoneill.com/

(Extensive resource)

Includes bio:
http://www.eoneill.com/biography.htm
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Audio from "Chase and Sanborn Hour" radio broadcast of "Mourning Becomes Electra"
http://www.eoneill.com/artifacts/flash/mber/mber.htm

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Christopher Plummer as James Tyrone in Long Day's Journey Into Night



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